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"What started out as a simple editing exercise—could we tell the entire story of the mission using only archival materials—turned into a cooperative effort by an international team of experts to create the definitive work on Apollo 11 for the screen"

"Through our many years of collaboration we have developed a very precise method of work," says Yorgos Lanthimos's editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis. "The process is about finding the balance, tone and stylistic preferences."

"Aaron [Sorkin] methodically worked in a reel-by-reel order. We would divide up sequences between us at breaks that made sense. But when it came time to review the cut on a sequence, we would all review together."

As technology has moved from analog to digital to HD and now to 4K, video producers have been left to sort out the tangle of file structures, compression codecs, and metadata-storage mechanisms for themselves.